The God who has subordinated himself to the human condition in the historical figure of Jesus is the perfect exemplar of epistemic humility, and hence discipleship of Jesus entails the free acceptance of the grace of self-doubt.
History
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Falling out of love with ideology during election season
Jason Blakely’s new book, “Lost in Ideology,” is “quite simply the best guide to today’s dominant ideologies,” writes William Cavanaugh. “Blakely is concise, sympathetic, insightful, critical and fair.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Batman, Bruce Wayne and the complexity of the superhero’s psyche
In “Batman: The Caped Crusader,” we explore the mystery of heroism.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
How Jacques Maritain went from antisemite to Catholic champion of the Jewish people
The intertwined stories of Jacques Maritain and ‘Nostra Aetate’ underscore the need for Christians, now more than ever, to repudiate and combat antisemitism.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
What a Jesuit saw at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. reports on the paradoxical brotherhood of polished Democrats and barefoot “hippies” in Chicago, 1968.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
As the Democratic Convention opens in Chicago, lessons from an eerily similar year: 1968
Public events take place today in 2024 that are eerily comparable to situations in another critical year: 1968. But our current situation, like 1968, is a moment when our faith can make a difference in history and in our own memories.
Posted inFaith and Reason, Politics & Society
Celebrities: We don’t care who you’re voting for
It is not selfish to do what you are good at and then to show a degree of humility about other things—including politics and other fields of expertise.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Edith Stein, Teresa of Ávila and what we’re willing to give for the truth
A Homily for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The Paris Olympics ‘Last Supper,’ the French Revolution and punching down on a Catholic minority
The display at the Olympics was not innocent fun gone too far or Europeans just being artsy. It was bullying a minority.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Remembering Gail Lumet Buckley, chronicler of African American history and a ‘pluralistic Catholic’
Gail Lumet Buckley, who died on July 18, was an award-winning chronicler of the African American experience. She once wrote of herself in ‘America’ that “I choose the cross of faith over the sword of ideology.”